The future of Rosetta

Hello,
From what I have heard, macOS will soon phase out Rosetta. I was wondering if Rosetta will still be available to install separately (instead of being preinstalled).

I don't use Rosetta to run applications, because all the applications I use are ARM.

However, for my YouTube channel, I often use the -arch x86_64 flag with clang. I do this so I can show the result from objdump and teach x86_64 Assembly, while also running the program through Rosetta.

This may be a very niche use case, however I was still curious.

Thank you!

There's an important note in the documentation that probably answers the question for your specific use.

— Ed Ford,  DTS Engineer

What Ed said plus…

Keep in mind that Rosetta will continue to function on older releases of macOS. So no matter what happens in the future, you can test these small programs by running them on, say, macOS 26 in a VM.

Oh, and what’s the name of your YouTube channel? I’m always happy to learn about folks teaching assembly (-: even if it is Intel assembly )-:

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The future of Rosetta
 
 
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